April Writing Prompts: Do April Showers Bring May Flowers?

Looking for a quick activity for your homeschool language arts or creative writing class? For April, I am sharing three photo prompts and a free download of writing prompts for you and your children. April has always been one of my favorite months because the daffodils are blooming, the weather starts to warm up, and many people I love share birthdays in April. Do you enjoy the sometimes rainy month of April?

Download your Free April Writing Prompts Here! 

Photo Prompts 

More Fun! 

Looking for some more fun activities for your homeschool during the month of April? Or perhaps you would like to check out the prompts for March or February?

There are so many neat projects to complete in April from painting pigs or designing chickens, springtime brings lots of wonderful arts and crafts opportunities for you and your children.

Crafts: Spring Flowers

Looking to recycle some of that tissue paper you saved from gift bags? I can't be the only person who tries to fold it neatly to reuse for future presents or for crafts, can I?

Our children made these two beautiful flowers with tissue paper, construction paper, and glue.

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Materials 

• Construction paper or drawing paper
• Pencil
• White glue 
• Tissue paper 

Steps 

1. Gather all your materials.

2. Draw your flower onto your paper. You can draw it like I did or let your children draw it themselves.

3. After choosing the colors for the project, tear the tissue paper into strips and small pieces. Then crumble it a bit before gluing it to the paper.

4. Fill in all the white spaces with tissue paper to create a beautiful flower. 

OR 

If your children prefer our daughter's picture, you can skip the crumbling step and just glue the pieces of tissue paper onto the drawing paper. 

Will you create your own spring flower craft with your children? If you share a photograph on Instagram, please use the hashtag #momquesttoteach so I can see it! You can also follow me on Instagram (moms_quest_to_teach).

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Crafts: Paper Plate Lamb Masks

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Creating masks is a favorite craft time activity for my little ones.  This week we created lambs.

Materials

• cotton balls
• pink construction paper
• white paper plates
• white construction paper
• glue 
• scissors 
• Popsicle sticks 

Steps

1. Gather all materials.

2. Cut circle out of paper plate to create a mask.

3. Glue on cotton balls around edges to create fur.

4. Cut out ear shapes (pink and white).

5. Glue ears onto the back of the paper plates.

6. Attach a handle for the child to hold their mask.

Our lambs look a bit more like rabbits but that is okay with my kids.  They knew they were their lamb masks.  Just proves that kids don't really care about the end product, as long as everyone had fun during the process and got to spend time together.

And in the end, my daughter didn't want to use her mask for a photograph.

Resources

Danya Banya's Paper Plate Sheep Masks for Kids 
Teaching Nook's Animal Crafts (including a lamb mask)
Dollar Tree's In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb 

Looking for more activities for your preschooler or toddler? 

Work on fine motor skills by creating weather bottles or practice buttoning with a felt ribbon snake. 

Crafts: Cardboard Paper Roll Chicks

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For a quick craft, I decided to make toilet paper roll chicks with my two littles. I think these make a great craft for the spring season, learning about chickens, or Easter time. 

Materials 

• toilet paper roll
• yellow paint
• orange construction paper or orange craft foam 
• craft feathers
• googly eyes
• paint brushes 

Steps 

1. Gather all your materials.

2. Paint toilet paper rolls yellow.  My son and daughter used both paint brushes and finger painting.

3. While the paint is drying, cut out the beaks. Just small triangles will do.

4. After your paint has dried, glue on googly eyes, the beak, and feathers.

5. If you wish, you can attach construction paper feet.

Resources

Crafty Kids at Home's Spring Chick Craft 
Happy Hooligan's Toilet Roll Peeps 
Free Kids Craft's Paper Loop Chick 

 

Looking for more spring-themed posts? 

You could make your own paper plate lamb masks, paint paper plate pigs, or design farm animal bowling pins from plastic bottles this spring! 

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Crafts: Mother's Day Wreath

For Mother's Day, my son and I made wreaths for my son's grandmothers and his Godmother.  I originally got the idea from spring wreaths made of egg carton flowers.  Since I knew how great cardboard egg cartons are for crafts, I had been saving our old ones for quite a while.  I used a total of three and cut them into separate sections.

Materials 

• Cardboard egg cartons
• Scissors
• Paper plates
• Paint and supplies
• Fasteners (or other attaching supplies)

                               

Steps 

My son painted the flowers in two sessions.  The first time he had to be encouraged to paint the inside of the flower and during our second painting session he was really interested in painting the plates.

 

After they dried, I attached the flowers to the paper plates using fasteners because it was a material I had at hand.  One could use glue or pipe cleaners and buttons to make the wreaths even fancier or if your crafty kid is older than mine (almost 3).

 

All told the project would take maybe two hours painting with 10 minutes prep time and 20 minutes to attach them to plates.

I wasn't concerned that they look too perfect because they are supposed to be from a toddler - not his mom.


Inspiration
Creative Egg Carton Crafts

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